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• Introducing Monster Maelstrom: 24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest Moments

  Posted on:October 20, 2016 |  at 08:33 AM

  Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack? Grab Monster Maelstrom and fill your fleeting moments with 24 creepy and chuckle-inducing Halloween flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per engaging story

• Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments

  Posted on:September 24, 2016 |  at 02:03 PM

  Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack? Grab the new Bite-Sized Stories anthology FREE and fill your stolen moments with 33 indie flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per story.

• Death Shop is a 2016 Best of the Independent eBook Awards Nominee

  Posted on:May 19, 2016 |  at 01:51 PM

  I woke up Tuesday morning to discover that my dystopian science fiction novella <em>Death Shop</em> is nominated for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards. Now, I swear, this is not one of those things that I found in my spam folder, 'Just $50 and You Too Can be an Award-Winning Author!' Really, I swear.

• No Le Entiendo: A Chicago Cabbie's Poem

  Posted on:May 10, 2016 |  at 05:31 PM

  From 1994-1997, I drove a Chicago cab. It was the perfect complement to a University of Chicago education. I freelanced for a large corporation, I saw the seedy underbelly of the Loop and I rubbed elbows with hardworking immigrants from two dozen different countries. One thing I learned quickly is that white cabdrivers were rare. So I wrote a poem about it (back in 1997). Here you go.

• What Good Stories Have You Read Lately?

  Posted on:May 7, 2016 |  at 01:13 PM

  Right now, I''m reading a paper copy of the <em>Tao Te Ching</em> (and loving it). On my kindle, I''ve got these books open: <em>Brave New World</em> (kind of dense), <em>Thus Spake Zarathustra</em> (good stuff), <em>The Poetic Edda</em> (I''m working on a novel concept related to Norse mythology), <em>The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction</em> (edited by Isaac Asimov), <em>The Art of Worldly Wisdom</em> by Baltasar Gracián and <em>The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America</em>.

• Valiant, He Endured: 17 Sci-Fi Myths of Insolent Grit

  Posted on:May 5, 2016 |  at 12:52 PM

  We did it again! This time, twelve authors enjoyed a meeting of the keyboards and we’ve got a thrilling 17-story science fiction anthology to show you for it. I love it. It’s exceeding my expectations. Have a look for yourself:

• A 1997 Gift from My Roommates

  Posted on:May 2, 2016 |  at 08:46 PM

  It was 1997 and I rented a basement room in a ground floor apartment in Chicago’s still-questionable Wicker Park neighborhood (2300 block of West North Ave) with a friendly couple and a high-class drug addict.

• Want to Save the Planet? Just Kill All the People

  Posted on:January 2, 2016 |  at 08:12 AM

  Human Free is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George Donnelly set in 22nd century South Africa after an ecologically-motivated man-made holocaust. Read it free as I write it on WattPad. Check it out now!